Longshot City

by Craig Meyer, inventor/engineer/consultant/speculator

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• The Works

  • Standards Magic: Hand drill as drive motor
  • The Power of Standards: Converting Playing Cards into Building Toys
  • The power of standards: Ballistic clipboard
  • Iain Sinclair and the power of standards
  • Best lightweight shirts and pants for hot climates?
  • “Sleepbox” and the modular real estate of tomorrow
  • Self expression vs. The Fear
  • Delete! Retreat!
  • “This Misandry Bubble”
  • (Free) Book: The Principles of Social Competence
  • Liquids Pricey, Gas Cheap
  • PrintThisInColorForMe.com
  • Auto-web-uploading digital camera
  • Two-Way Equities Banking
  • Master-Slave iPhone/iTouch
  • “Trunk Club”: Another Take on How Men Get Clothes
  • Not-So-Stupid Shipping Container Tricks
  • Product Idea: “Mister Shower”
  • Book Plug: “Time, Sex and Power”
  • “Fast Five” and how cultures use men
  • Gotta love that Justin Bieber
  • Armageddon cell phones
  • “f.lux” time-of-day computer color compensator
  • Academic hand-drawn animations “RSA Animate”
  • Dinner guest acquisition service
  • “Are You Lonely?”
  • 100-foot cocaine-smuggling submarine
  • Incredible story about Imperial Japanese bureaucracy
  • The Cambodian Exodus Donut Empire
  • Solitary == Bad
  • “Foodtubes” and the future of freight
  • James Burke on YouTube
  • LovePlus+
  • The only “immortal” animal
  • The Dunning-Kruger Effect (short audio piece)
  • Empty inbox!
  • Containerized heavy weaponry
  • Proposed Gmaps feature: Range maps
  • “Why We Haven’t Met Any Aliens”
  • Semi-graphical super-grammar
  • “The Spectacularization of Consumption”
  • China, censorship and intellectual property
  • Avatar Plot Holes
  • If they made the movie Back to the Future today…
  • Wireless telephone headsets = The Bomb
  • The Wright Brothers always wore suits
  • A small printer for Post-It notes!
  • If you want to build a ship…
  • A leader is best when…
  • Time-delay store in Japan
  • Waking up earlier than necessary
  • Cookie Monster and The Count
  • A-B-C-D-E-F-Cookie-Monster!
  • Cookie Monster, a brief anthology
  • The Twentieth Century
  • Book report: “Outliers” by Malcolm Gladwell
  • A Muppets Anthology part 2: The La Choy Dragon
  • Origin and Development of Cookie Monster
  • Offshore LNG receiving
  • Writing for people who don’t know English well.
  • “… that depends on how you’re leading her sexually.”
  • Working Stiff
  • I’m going to Krakow Poland this Sunday!
  • I got the job!
  • “There’s your daddy!”
  • Quote of the week
  • The Weight-Sensing Hand-controller-less Electric Skateboard
  • The Six-Six Keyboard
  • Jack Welch’s six directives
  • RFO: One-way book-to-PDF scanning service?
  • I’m famous!
  • (Craig Meyer, amateur prophet)
  • (The Economist quote about the shipping glut)
  • Another lazy weekend
  • The Turn
  • Craig’s video resume!
  • Prayer Cherry
  • Craig all-but gets in!
  • Web port of GNU “units”
  • Triumph of the obvious: Bollards: A victory for ParaTow!
  • “Everything is Amazing and No One is Happy”
  • Craig Goes to Church
  • Virginia? Maryland? Huh?
  • Moving as an adult
  • Two books
  • Container Blimp
  • Tough but Helpful Affirmation
  • Parafoil Dynamic-Ballast Blimp; take 2
  • Hanging-Parafoil Dynamic-Ballast Blimp!
  • Kiva robotic warehouse shelves
  • $6M of venture funding for WHAT?
  • “Stranded” floppy disks, what now?
  • The very best way to spend $15,000
  • Middle-button machine gun
  • FlyMill!
  • Armageddon Calculation, revised
  • “PCC” (Parallel Compound Cycle) aircraft engine
  • Breakfast
  • The 20 Year Computer
  • SkypeBot, a video telephone appliance
  • “Voice Reply” to emails?
  • Holy Crap: CO2 sucked from the air efficiently
  • Simgas, the ideal gas simulator!
  • “Grand Theft Bailout”
  • The Interstate Screen Saver
  • RAMbox, a cheap computer speed-up trick
  • MultiLane, a multi-redundant internet thingie+service
  • Wuzzat.com, a picture-based translation service
  • LapHead: using a laptop as a mouse+monitor+keyboard
  • (Extracurricular) Sexiest 45 record jacket ever
  • Sandwich camouflage to make it unattractive to lunch thieves.
  • A solar-charged travel light that screws onto your Nalgene bottle.
  • Cat5Crazy.com, a business idea about cables
  • 737 bodies on rail cars
  • Tubewich! My first food invention
  • USB Flashdisk + Flashlight!